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Scott Jamieson believes Melbourne City mean business when it comes to winning the A-League title.There isn’t much Scott Jamieson hasn’t seen in his decade in the A-League, but after ticking off a big first on the weekend, he hopes a maiden A-League title can follow.

The Melbourne City left-back was named captain for the first time in his professional career on Friday night, when City beat Brisbane Roar 2-0.

Jamieson said it was “an honour” to take the armband, and even better to get the win.

But the 29-year-old is aching for a team-wide honour that has eluded him for his professional career.

Jamieson has played in four finals through his career, losing each one.

At Adelaide, Jamieson was part of the team that came up short in the 2008 Asian Champions League final and the 2009 A-League decider.

With Perth Glory, he came up short in the 2014 FFA Cup final against his former employers United.

In 2016, he felt the pain of another lost A-League grand final – against the Reds once more – with Western Sydney.

And so it is you can understand his burning desire to put that right this season as City hunt for another

“I don’t want to go throughout my career and say I didn’t win anything,” he told AAP.

“I’ve had four goes and I’ve fallen four times so winning this A-League title would be pretty bloody special.”

In many ways, Jamieson epitomises the City way under Warren Joyce; quietly going about the business.

Jamieson has been one of the league’s most consistent fullbacks, providing run and cover and the odd set piece, when required, of quality.

Like many other City players, he’s also been around the block.

Having been a part of five different A-League set-ups – with a stint in Sweden – Jamieson said what set his City team above was its single-mindedness.

“This team is one of the most cut-throat I’ve been a part of,” he said.

“It’s hard to get across in words. This team is really just about being successful.

“There’s good camaraderie around the team, this team is close – and don’t take this the wrong way – but we’re business-like.

“There are friendships but this team is about winning.

“We’ve got mutual respect and we want to win. And there’s real belief that we can.”

A 25-year-old man has been charged with 10 counts of murder following the van attack in Toronto.The man accused of ploughing a rental van into pedestrians on a crowded Toronto footpath, killing 10 people in Canada’s deadliest mass killing in decades, left a “cryptic message” on social media before the attack, police say.

Suspect Alek Minassian, 25, was charged with 10 counts of murder and 13 counts of attempted murder following Monday’s incident.

One possible clue to his motive emerged as Facebook confirmed Minassian wrote a post before the incident that referenced an “incel rebellion.”

The term is shorthand used in some online message boards for “involuntary celibacy”, a loose social media movement of men who blame women for their celibacy.

Canadian authorities have declined to say whether anger toward women had motivated the attack.

The post also voiced admiration for a man who killed six college students before taking his own life in California in 2014 and who cited the “cruelness of women” for his virgin status.

“The accused is alleged to have posted a cryptic message on Facebook minutes before” the attack, Graham Gibson, a Toronto police detective sergeant, told a news conference. The majority of the victims were women, ranging in age from their mid-20s to early 80s, Gibson said.

He said the question of whether the attack was driven by anger against women was “going to be part of our investigation.”

Facebook has since deleted Minassian’s account, a representative said. “There is absolutely no place on our platform for people who commit such horrendous acts,” she said in an email.

Minassian kept his shaved head down during a brief court appearance in Canada’s largest city, speaking quietly with a defence lawyer and stating his name in a steady voice when asked to do so.

The incident had the hallmarks of deadly vehicle assaults by Islamic State supporters. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there was no reason to suspect any national security connection.

Trudeau called on all Canadians to stand united with Toronto as flowers and scrawled messages in multiple languages piled up at a makeshift memorial in the city’s north end, an ethnically diverse neighbourhood of office buildings, shops, restaurants and homes.

“We cannot as Canadians choose to live in fear every single day as we go about our daily business,” Trudeau told reporters outside parliament in Ottawa.

Minassian had briefly served in Canada’s armed forces in late 2017 but asked to be voluntarily released after 16 days of training, defence ministry spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande said.

The suspect’s two-story red-brick home in a suburb north of Toronto was a crime scene on Tuesday, taped off and surrounded by police vehicles.

Two South Korean nationals and a Jordanian citizen were killed in the attack.

Hawthorn’s James Sicily’s guilty plea to serious misconduct will see him miss one match.Fiery Hawthorn defender James Sicily says he has learned his lesson after the AFL tribunal banned him for one game.

Sicily was referred directly to Tuesday’s tribunal hearing on a charge of serious misconduct, after he stepped on Shaun Atley while the North Melbourne player was lying on the ground.

The Hawks backman has served a one-game ban already this season for kneeing Geelong captain Joel Selwood.

“I’m a bit disappointed – partly with the result, but more disappointed with the fact that I’m here,” an emotional Sicily said after his hearing.

“I’m disappointed in the act and it’s something that I need to get out of my game – it’s definitely something I’ve learned from.”

The AFL tribunal has handed Port Adelaide’s Lindsay Thomas a three-week ban for a dangerous bump.Port Adelaide forward Lindsay Thomas is out of action for a total of four AFL matches after pleading guilty at the tribunal.

The tribunal handed him a three-game ban for rough conduct, plus earlier on Tuesday he had accepted a one-game suspension for striking Joel Selwood.

Thomas’ case was heard immediately before Selwood, the Geelong captain, also fronted the tribunal on Tuesday night to fight his one-game suspension for striking.

Thomas and Selwood were charged with striking each other.

Their incident happened immediately after Thomas had ironed out Selwood’s brother Scott with a bump during the second term of the Saturday night clash at Adelaide Oval.

Tribunal advocate Nick Pane QC had argued that Thomas should receive a four-game ban for the bump on Scott Selwood.

Thomas’ advocate Ben Krupka said if the goalsneak was banned for a total of five games, it would be a “crushing blow” to his chances of playing in the AFL again this season.

Thomas has a one-year contract at Port and is on their rookie list after leaving North Melbourne at the end of last season.

A medical report from Geelong said Scott Selwood was vomiting in the rooms after the Thomas bump.

He missed a couple of days’ training and is in doubt for Saturday’s home game against Sydney because of his concussion.

Krupka used two previous tribunal cases to argue that Thomas’ bump was at the lower end of the severe range and did not warrant a four-game ban.

Gayle WoodfordTwo years ago outback nurse Gayle Woodfordwas abducted and murdered in the APY Lands in South Australia’s north.

Gayle’s sister, Andrea Hannemann, and the rest of her family are still fighting for safer working conditions for remote and regional nurses and health workers.

Mrs Hannemann said it was important to her family that all nurses and health workers hada safe place to work.

“It must never happen again; we never want another family to go through the pain and trauma we have,” shesaid.

Gayle’s Law, abolishingsingle nurse postings in remote and rural areas, passed the South Australian parliament in November 2017, but it only covers the state-fundedOodnadatta and Leigh Creek areas, not the APY Lands.

“The family want Gayle’s Law to be recognised by every state government and federally across Australia,” Mrs Hannemann said.

“Every workplace across Australia should be safe.

“Itis the responsibility of our government to ensure laws are in place to guarantee workers’ safety.

FIGHTING: Andrea Hannemann, pictured with a photo of her with her sisters, Wendy and Gayle, is fighting to get Gayle’s Law recognised federally to provide safer working conditions for remote and rural nurses and health workers.

“Gayle’s Law will ensure higher levels of safety for health workers across Australia.”

Andrea Hannemann, Gayle Woodford’s sister

Mrs Woodford’s family isasking for everyone concerned with the conditions in these remote and rural areas to contact their local federal member to more pressure on the federal government to pass the law.

Mrs Hannemann said Nganampa Health Council in the APY Lands had made changes to the protocols and procedures for nurses, despite Worksafe SA initially finding Mrs Woodford’s death was not work related.

READ MORE:Killer of outback nurse Gayle Woodford gets 32 years’ jail

“Worksafe SA made its decision from a round table in an office in a city without visiting Gayle’s workplace to do an investigation,” she said.

“The decision was an insult to Gayle and her work ethic and left the family in further anguish.”

Worksafe SA apologisedto Mrs Woodford’s family for its decisionon the eve ofthe second anniversary of her death and acknowledged herdeath was in fact a workplace incident. It has reopened theinvestigation into herdeath.

“The family welcome the apology and look forward to a thorough investigation into Gayle’s workplace and all other similar workplaces across Australia.”